Zone of Visual Arts presents under the title of the exhibition Protestmelody German artist Patrick Borchers. Project is an assertive character, which is evidenced by the protest movements that have taken place around the world in a short space of time. This surprisingly artist handles the information, looks and reconstructing destroyed under their own perspective through drawing, video and sculpture. The visitor is faced with an open space almost as minimalist ethereal contrast to the ambience of the demonstrations in the prevailing noise and overcrowding. As Patrick plays with opposing forces, ie, it creates a completely paradoxical play between noise / silence between the urban / vacuum.
In his installation leaves itself free rein to protest under a white banner while stressing the flag that always leads the demonstrations, in this case green color typical of the Muslim religion, with reference to the unrest caused in Middle East. The set is accompanied by a red flag, the color that represents the strength and the passion with which these events take place. To finish, a series of representative plates simulating soil around streams of people involved in those protests with bales of paper with different signs, as icons of the different characters of the manifestations: economic, cultural, socio-political, etc.
Similarly, the drawings that accompany the installation leave empty lines to be the visitor who work to achieve the experience, each is responsible for concluding and summarizing the information that the artist gives us. Therefore, we are talking about a collaboration between artist and visitor. His drawing is also very clean and clear, you could even consider lyrical, as outlined silhouettes contrast with the massive influx of demonstrations.
The exhibition also highlights the video without sound again contrasts with the main reason for protest, he only sees a man holding up a red flag protest and revolution at the top of a tree, as if the artist created a special area for visitors to his voice rising.
The starting point for his graphic work is the daily newspaper as well as images and videos circulating on the Internet. His attention is focused on individual experience drawn from certain individuals and groups, as seen in Protestmelody, where her gaze is focused exclusively on the various manifestations that occur in different cultures and countries. So your perception is developed in the socio-political, which controversially questioned the information they hold and provide the media in our day to day.
His work focuses on individual perception obtained from certain individuals and groups, reducing its original spatial context and compressing the look of simple lines. The drawing is developed in a graphics processing, as one of the means at Borchers served to underscore his artistic and social role, by manipulating the picture primarily as tool use. Thus creating a gap between the disaster and audience and creating the necessary distance so we can investigate the facts before turning to our previous knowledge. Borchers
combines several approaches offering the viewer different readings, which can be completed with the linear narrative that draws its narrative. So, have a concatenation of different formats into sheets that are placed on the wall freely and asymmetric, giving cohesion and, covering a partial individuality within a group. The artist directs the viewer's eye to the specific details that captured their retinas stopping for a moment the image he has decided to show us. However, his drawings are a complex reading, one hand due to continuing partnerships that we weave, without doubt, increase our awareness of certain issues, but on the other hand, is a process as constructive.
recap, for him the artistic research is the artistic in itself, hence this fragment of videos, pictures and photographs tracing fun new linear networks. Thus, the narrative sequence is formed through the transition from partially decomposed elements that can be reinterpreted by the viewer who is swimming against the tide.
Patrick creates the authenticity of the self, transformed symbolic and formal through a tangle of overlapping layers of images, which are mutated by the artistic process and encode meaning consciously or unconsciously.